Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17806 Elected
Conservative 16438
Social Democratic Party 9535
Plaid Cymru 413

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22916 Elected
Conservative 16533
Social Democratic Party 7273
Plaid Cymru 478

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25206 Elected
Conservative 17355
Liberal Democrat 4687
Plaid Cymru 551
Green 433
Independent 200

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25955 Elected
Conservative 9552
Liberal Democrat 4076
Referendum Party 1627
Scottish National Party 738

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18525 Elected
Conservative 9303
Liberal Democrat 4585
Plaid Cymru 1182
Green 881
UK Independence Party 481
Independent 253
Communist Party of Great Britain 211

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17331 Elected
Conservative 8953
Liberal Democrat 6174
Plaid Cymru 1320
UK Independence Party 918
Forward Wales 378
Independent 215
Communist Party of Great Britain 207

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15804 Elected
Conservative 12885
Liberal Democrat 7308
Plaid Cymru 1549
British National Party 1368
UK Independence Party 1009

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16540 Elected
Conservative 13197
UK Independence Party 7260
Liberal Democrat 1733
Plaid Cymru 1608
Green 976

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23315 Elected
Conservative 18080
Plaid Cymru 1171
UK Independence Party 1117
Liberal Democrat 1077

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18271 Elected
Conservative 18058
Brexit Party 2678
Liberal Democrat 2548
Plaid Cymru 1453

More information about the 2019 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election


The election result data we hold includes over three hundred party labels, so we have simplified them to these seven simple categories. Of course, most candidates in most elections, and almost every candidate who won, was standing for one of the main parties, but an enormous range of labels have been used by one or two candidates. These groupings have been defined based almost entirely on the party labels, rather than detailed research into party policies, but including words like 'Labour' or 'Conservative' in ...


your party label says a lot about where you stand, and even more about the people voting for you. 'Left' means broadly speaking candidates to the left of the Liberal or Labour parties, 'Right' candidates to the right of the Conservatives. 'Nationalist' means any kind of nationalist, even including Isle of Wight nationalists.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Alyn and Deeside CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12755521/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 02nd May 2024